Cartes
Modern web map application with transit support
Cartes.app is a modern web map application. Cartes (which means maps in French) provides a universal interface for mobile and desktop: a simple URL lets the user open or share the map of a place with friends. This fills the gap of the "online" experience of proprietary offerings such as Google and Apple Maps.
It levers state of the art open-source libraries to offer a rich feature set including transit and itinerary plans, address search and place categories, to name a few. In addition to data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) Cartes also draws from other public data sources to deliver a complete experience: transit data sets, Panoramax street level imagery, Wikimedia, etc. Cartes runs its own hosted tile layers.
In the scope of this grant, the project will tackle internationalisation of the user interface, enable editing and reviewing places, add satellite tiles, live transit data, low-carbon itineraries as well as perform a variety of other performance and feature improvements.
- The project's own website: https://cartes.app
This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.
